Plus, its Finland. The Finns have +25 resistance to all elements and +2 constitution. To them, forest fires are just natural occurring saunas. The only thing that can harm them is alcohol poisoning and lake trolls.

IT is the most mobile industry there is. Companies like Uber dont need anything beyond office space and computers to program on. Even super computers are relatively mobile, and while the HVAC of a server farm isnt simple it still makes more sense to have a huge server farm in Maine and save a ton on...

Even if tomorrow we, all of humanity, were to not use a single drop more of oil or nugget of coal, climate change would still continue to get worse for a bit longer due to the time scales involved. So then, should we continue to settle California? Maybe we should consider moving industries such as H...

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/airplanes_and_spaceships.png Alt txt: "Despite having now taken three months longer than the airplane people, we're making disappointingly little progress toward the obvious next stage of vehicle: The Unobtanium-hulled tunneling ship from the 2003 film 'The Core.'&...

Ok, serious question. What activities would a forestry service normally do that could actually prevent fires? Context: Trump talking out of his ass regarding what California should've done to prevent forest fires. At this point I'm half expecting him to say that it's Silicon Valley's fault for not h...

Not really, no, it wasn't bad. It wasn't particularly good, however. The plot was a bit weird and a tad nonsensical, the villain didn't seem to really have all that much of a plan, and Chris Tucker was basically a slightly less racist Jar Jar Binks, but it had great visuals and some decent fight sce...

What we know of the native Americans is actually quite limited. When the Spanish arrived, they brought over smallpox and plague and malaria. All at once. The mass sudden deaths wasnt just fewer people, but civilizations themselves collapsed. Imagine living in a town with just a couple of farmers, a ...

Woo. I'm actually slightly interested in the returns, only so I can laugh at just how little Trump is actually worth. I don't want to use foul language, but remember how there was (and still is) the extremely racist term "<n-word> rich" to describe someone who lives a lavish lifestyle they...

Science has always been a work in progress. As for taxonomy, that's actually more of a map than actual science. It started as just a way for Linneus to group animals in much the same way a person might organize paints, and when paleontology and so forth came about it turned out that it was relativel...

The fact that I even have to point this out is a little frustrating? Given your past history, I'm presuming you're not genuinely trying to troll me, here -- but this still feels like you're trolling. I'm hoping this is just a misunderstanding or something, and that you do genuinely understand that ...

"Keep the fuck off of my property or I will murder you" is pretty much universal in nature, and with a few notable exceptions animals aren't Capitalistic by any means. This is, of course, irrelevant. Not really. You are claiming that property rights are Capitalistic. I'm pointing out that...

The idea of Socialism is that your property rights don't extend to much more than your own personal living space, not that there are no property rights at all (though some seem to be of this mindset). The big issue is where there is a means of production that requires multiple people to operate; sho...

The notion that vandalizing property is equivalent to an assault or an attack on the owner is a notion steeped in capitalism. "Keep the fuck off of my property or I will murder you" is pretty much universal in nature, and with a few notable exceptions animals aren't Capitalistic by any me...

So, on Dec 6th, 1.0 will be released. Currently as is, the game has the entire map, and in many ways is a literal sandbox with many deserts to work with as well as swamps and industrial hellholes. Build up your own town, conquer the world if you like, play as a single character trying to survive. Of...

Gentrification is ironic considering that the "original" locals had already replaced the prior "original" locals, who had displaced the "original" locals and so forth all the way back to the native American genocides.

Laws and punishments are codified so that everyone knows not only what exactly is wrong but what the general punishment for a crime is, rather than being completely dependent upon the mood of the local prince that day. Yes yes, the laws as they are arent applied equally to all, but you arent going t...

Well, I can agree to disagree, and hope you can agree to disagree as well. Personally, I view the police as a necessary evil, and most of the individual police officers as jobsworths, thugs with badges, lawful stupid knight templars, or a combination of the priors. But, as a necessary evil, they on ...

cu it's hilarious that you think joining twin oaks or similar actually is like a get out of capitalism free card, that's not remotely how it works. we build communities like twin oaks as a way to survive and be less harmed under capitalism but it's so fucking stupid to think that that gets you out ...

Bullshit. If you are desperate for joining a communist society without private property ownership, there's the Twin Oaks Community that'll readily accept you, to say nothing of the various freegan-like societies throughout the world.

As an optimistic nihilist, I'm offended that the sociopathic Republicans are being called "nihilistic" partisan hacks. As for "nihilistic partisan hacks" that dont care as long as their party does well, I'd say that's 80% of both parties. Wait, that's wrong, iron law of instituti...

Oh no, you work in a prison and you realize that everyone was innocent. They dealt drugs to support their girlfriend, or beat up that guy with a tire iron because he insulted their sister, or killed that guy but it was ok because he was in a rival gang and so the death was honorable and all. You'll ...

No, they are the party of hypocrites. As are Democrats. Really, the only anti-war President we've had in recent memory was Carter. Clinton got us involved in wars we didnt need to be, as did both Bush's, and Reagan, Nixon, JFK, hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today. Ford, eh. Really, only one...

1) The EPA was a republican creation 2) An argument can be made, not one I agree with but one I can respect, that the EPA and other pollution controls combined with free trade results in more pollution as the manufacturing just goes to the country with the least controls of all. Unless carbon caps a...

Every single Republican voter is absolutely 100% okay with corporations poisoning Americans so long as it is profitable. Every single Democratic voter is absolutely 100% okay with bombing Middle Easterners to death so long as it is profitable. Let's not forget that Hillary was responsible for TWO w...

So in other words, nervous people are up to no good, as opposed to being, say, afraid of flying due to phobia or fear of terrorist attacks? ... or afraid of TSA and their 'nudity scanners'... (Yes I know the scanners don't provide suitably wankable images (though Rule 34...), but that doesn't mean ...

Because you can't make 20 years of salary last for 60 years of adulthood even with the pension? Many cops "double dip", where they spend 20 years enlisted and 20 years as a cop to get two pensions instead of one (honestly, the ex-mil cops are probably the best ones ), and it's even possibl...